The Wretched And The Divine
The Battle With The Parents
Isis POV
I woke up to the sight of my father sitting on the chair, flicking through the channels, and my mom relaxing on the couch on her phone. I remembered that Ashley told me that my parents were on their way, I just never expected to see them so soon! My dad was the first to notice me..
"Hey Isis! How are you feeling?" He asked as he came over to hug me.
"I'm doing fine!" I said. "I've missed you guys!"
"What's the last thing you remember?" My mom said.
"Well I was at home getting ready for warped tour. That's about it." I said. My parents exchanged looks, "oh! But I also know that Ashley and I are together and we love each other very much."
"You don't remember anything else at all?" My mom asked.
I shook my head. "Well Gemma told me why I was here. I guess I was drugged?" I said.
"Ashley should've looked after you." My dad grumbled.
At that moment, Ashley and Gemma walked in.
“Um, what’s going on?” Ashley asked with a confused look on his face.
"Why didn't you look after Isis better?" My dad asked, frustrated.
“I was!” Ashley said.
“Hang on, her drink was spiked while I was at the bar with her!” Gemma said annoyed, “Scarlette done it when all of us had our backs turned! We couldn’t have done anything so don’t turn this on Ashley!”
"You guys dragged her into this!" My mom said, "she shouldn't have been in New York in the first place!" She glared at me. My heart monitor started pacing again but with fear this time. My mom sighed and nodded towards the door. Everyone nodded and all left the room, leaving me alone.
Gemma’s POV
Isis’ mum took us all outside, she did not look happy.
“Ok before anyone starts,” I said, “Isis is 20, she’s legally an adult she can make her own decisions!”
“She’s still our child!” said her mum.
“That may be,” said Ashley, “She wanted to come along to make sure me and CC were safe, same with Gemma, now Scarlette said she was going to drug her too if she wasn't pregnant so what would you have rather happened? Isis drugged, or them both drugged and we still not know where they are? As far as I can see it that was our choices. Yeah I’m pissed off that Isis was drugged at all, this person was vetted by our management, and me and CC were chosen for the meetup. This was the record labels idea, I wish we hadn't come because now she doesn't remember me and that’s killing me!” I rested my hand on Ashley’s shoulder only to have him shrug me away.
"Maybe it's for the best." She said looking at the dad, "We're taking her home."
“You are doing no such thing!” I shouted, probably a bit too loud, “If she doesn't want to go then she’ll stay with us, it’s her choice!”
"Ever since she moved to LA, she has gotten into a lot of trouble! That's not what we want for her!" She said, "I'm glad she doesn't remember most of it."
“People make mistakes,” Ashley said, “it’s called growing up! I know I’ve made my fair share, and no doubt so have both of you! So dont start that, the worst thing you can do is smother her and shelter her away from the world! She needs to live her own life! If she wants to stay in LA, then let her, I will do my best to keep her safe, but she knew that being with me wasn’t going to be easy when she agreed to be my girlfriend, and even more so when we went public.” Isis parents just stood there in silence.
"We'll discuss this later." Her dad spoke and with that, they walked off.
“They’ll come round,” I said to Ashley, “Isis will be coming home with us, she loves you too much not to.” He didn’t react, he just walked off back to Isis’ room.
I sighed and leant against the wall, a few seconds later CC came out.
“You ok?” he asked, I shrugged. He put his arms around me. I felt my phone buzz, I’d got a message from my mum. ‘Can we talk about something I’ve just read, I’m not happy!’ I nodded to CC, I showed him the message and we went somewhere private to skype with my parents.
“What the hell were you thinking!” My mum shouted as soon as she answered.
“I’m sorry!” I said, “We’ve barely just found out ourselves, and that Kerrang article kinda made us go public before we wanted to.”
“It looks like you’ve known a while!” She was really pissed off, “Were you pregnant when you came home?”
I nodded. “But I didn’t know until a few days after I came back here,” I said, “It’s been manic over here, with the guys sorting out the new album and me and Isis haven’t been getting on, and now this.” I gestured to where we were.
“Haven’t you heard of contraception?” She asked. My jaw dropped.
“I’m sorry Mrs Fields,” said CC, “But your daughter is a grown woman, and yes we were careful, but these things happen, and both of us are excited to be parents. We may not have known that Gemma was pregnant till she was 10 weeks, but I love your daughter and this has made me realise that even I underestimated how much.”
“You’re coming home as soon as possible!” she said, “And I don’t care, you’re not old enough to have a child!”
“You were barely 26 when you fell pregnant with my sister!” I said, raising my voice slightly, “I’m 25, theres less than a years difference in the ages! And CC is 29, 30 in a few weeks, so don’t tell us we’re too young!”
“Ann,” I heard my dad say in the background,”Please she’s her own person. Gemma, all I can say is, if you’re happy then I am too.” I smiled to my dad who was now in shot.
“Christian,” he added, “If you really love my daughter like you say you do, look after her, and maybe bring her over whenever you tour over here, we miss her.” I smiled wider and looked at CC, who was smiling too.
“I will sir,” he said, “No doubt about that, I’ll look after them both.”
“Don’t come running to me when this all goes horribly wrong!” said my mum cutting the call.
I leaned back against CC.
“She’ll come around.” He said, “Can you handle my parents too?” I nodded against his chest, He got his phone out this time and called them and put them on speaker. They answered whinin the second ring.
“Christian!” his mum said sternly, “What’s this I hear about a grandchild?” He laughed.
“Yeah,” he said, “Gemma’s pregnant, about 14 weeks pregnant, we've known for just under a month, I’m sorry we didn't tell you sooner, it came as a shock.”
“You’ve only known for a short time?” she asked, “is Gemma there with you?”
“Yes I am Mrs Mora,” I said
“Oh Mrs Mora was my mother in law,” she laughed, “call me Alice, and how could you not know?”
“Well nothing was different, “I said, “And I was under a lot of stress, when ended up in me collapsing, which is when we found out, we nearly lost the baby.” I felt tears in my eyes again.
“Oh darling,” she said, “I hope all of you are ok after that, it must have been hard.”
“Unbelievably,” said CC, “But yeah we’re all ok, well except Isis, she’s lost her memory of the past year, but it’s temporary, we hope.”
“Wow an eventful few weeks with you two then,” she said, “Well in that case I’ll forgive you for no telling us sooner, Chris your fathers listening too, but as usual has nothing to say.”
“That’s cuz I can’t get a word in so I give up!” We heard CC’s dad call from the other end of the line. I couldn’t help but laugh at that. I heard him grumble something that sounded suspiciously like ‘women are chatterboxes’. “I’ll let you two get back to your friend,” CC’s mum added, “And Chris, you look after Gemma and your bundle of joy, love you all, and we’ll see you soon, after all we still need to meet you Gemma.”
“We’ll organize something soon Mom,” said CC, as we said our goodbyes and ended the call.
“Ok,” I said, “I want your parents, I wasn’t expecting mums reaction, well not as bad as that, she said she didn't want to be a nan until she was in her 60’s, but I’m 6 years early.”
“She’ll come around.” he said as he kissed the top of my head, we looked towards Isis room and saw Isis parents make their way in, “Now lets go back to Isis and save her from her parents.” We walked back to the room.
"So Isis, what do you want to do?" Her mom asked her.
"What do you mean?" She said. "I just wanna get well and go home... Wherever that is..." She looked at Ashley, "did I live with you?"
“Of course,” he said,”I need to keep an eye on you and save you from your former pack of fan girls.” Isis smiled.
"I want to stay in LA." Isis said to her parents. They looked at each other again and sighed.
"I guess you can stay." Her dad spoke. "If we find out about another screw up, you're coming back to Phoenix." I hope they never find out about the threesome then, I thought to myself, I looked at Ashley he looked like he had the same thought as me, I gave him a comforting smile.
"What happened to your arms?" Isis mom pointed out her scars. Isis shrugged and looked at me.
“Apparently it was a mutant bee,” I said, “She was in the bathroom and it attacked her, she ended up breaking the mirror.” Ashley and CC tried to not laugh as I retold the lie she’d told me a few weeks previously.
"That must've been one huge bee." Her mom laughed.
“It wasn’t,” said Ashley, “It was normal size, she just freaked out, I heard a crash and found her in the shower cubicle yelling at the bee.”
"I doubt I was that dramatic!" Isis laughed.
“You were, it was really funny,” Ashley said laughing, “But then I saw your arms, I took you to the hospital, and they treated you for blood loss, you really done a number on yourself.” Her parents seemed shocked by this, but were silenced before they’d spoken by the doctor coming in.
“Ok Isis,” he said, “We’ve looked over this mornings test results, and there is nothing physically wrong with you, so we don’t want to keep you in if you want to go home, and I think it’d be best for you there too, as that’ll help bring your lost memories back. We want you to check in with your local hospital once you get home and then go from there with out patient appointments. Is there anything you’d like to ask while you’re still here?” She shook her head. ”Ok good,” he said, “I’ll leave you to get ready, a nurse will bring your discharge papers in in a moment.” With that he left, and I threw her a set of clothes from the bag we’d brought in with us, the tshirt landing on her head and covering her face.
“That’s much better,” I said laughing, she took the shirt off and glared at me then ushered us all out so she could get dressed. She signed her discharge papers and we all headed back to the hotel to get our things and check out and then made our way to the airport, said our goodbyes to Isis’ parents and the headed back to LA on the next available flight.
I woke up to the sight of my father sitting on the chair, flicking through the channels, and my mom relaxing on the couch on her phone. I remembered that Ashley told me that my parents were on their way, I just never expected to see them so soon! My dad was the first to notice me..
"Hey Isis! How are you feeling?" He asked as he came over to hug me.
"I'm doing fine!" I said. "I've missed you guys!"
"What's the last thing you remember?" My mom said.
"Well I was at home getting ready for warped tour. That's about it." I said. My parents exchanged looks, "oh! But I also know that Ashley and I are together and we love each other very much."
"You don't remember anything else at all?" My mom asked.
I shook my head. "Well Gemma told me why I was here. I guess I was drugged?" I said.
"Ashley should've looked after you." My dad grumbled.
At that moment, Ashley and Gemma walked in.
“Um, what’s going on?” Ashley asked with a confused look on his face.
"Why didn't you look after Isis better?" My dad asked, frustrated.
“I was!” Ashley said.
“Hang on, her drink was spiked while I was at the bar with her!” Gemma said annoyed, “Scarlette done it when all of us had our backs turned! We couldn’t have done anything so don’t turn this on Ashley!”
"You guys dragged her into this!" My mom said, "she shouldn't have been in New York in the first place!" She glared at me. My heart monitor started pacing again but with fear this time. My mom sighed and nodded towards the door. Everyone nodded and all left the room, leaving me alone.
Gemma’s POV
Isis’ mum took us all outside, she did not look happy.
“Ok before anyone starts,” I said, “Isis is 20, she’s legally an adult she can make her own decisions!”
“She’s still our child!” said her mum.
“That may be,” said Ashley, “She wanted to come along to make sure me and CC were safe, same with Gemma, now Scarlette said she was going to drug her too if she wasn't pregnant so what would you have rather happened? Isis drugged, or them both drugged and we still not know where they are? As far as I can see it that was our choices. Yeah I’m pissed off that Isis was drugged at all, this person was vetted by our management, and me and CC were chosen for the meetup. This was the record labels idea, I wish we hadn't come because now she doesn't remember me and that’s killing me!” I rested my hand on Ashley’s shoulder only to have him shrug me away.
"Maybe it's for the best." She said looking at the dad, "We're taking her home."
“You are doing no such thing!” I shouted, probably a bit too loud, “If she doesn't want to go then she’ll stay with us, it’s her choice!”
"Ever since she moved to LA, she has gotten into a lot of trouble! That's not what we want for her!" She said, "I'm glad she doesn't remember most of it."
“People make mistakes,” Ashley said, “it’s called growing up! I know I’ve made my fair share, and no doubt so have both of you! So dont start that, the worst thing you can do is smother her and shelter her away from the world! She needs to live her own life! If she wants to stay in LA, then let her, I will do my best to keep her safe, but she knew that being with me wasn’t going to be easy when she agreed to be my girlfriend, and even more so when we went public.” Isis parents just stood there in silence.
"We'll discuss this later." Her dad spoke and with that, they walked off.
“They’ll come round,” I said to Ashley, “Isis will be coming home with us, she loves you too much not to.” He didn’t react, he just walked off back to Isis’ room.
I sighed and leant against the wall, a few seconds later CC came out.
“You ok?” he asked, I shrugged. He put his arms around me. I felt my phone buzz, I’d got a message from my mum. ‘Can we talk about something I’ve just read, I’m not happy!’ I nodded to CC, I showed him the message and we went somewhere private to skype with my parents.
“What the hell were you thinking!” My mum shouted as soon as she answered.
“I’m sorry!” I said, “We’ve barely just found out ourselves, and that Kerrang article kinda made us go public before we wanted to.”
“It looks like you’ve known a while!” She was really pissed off, “Were you pregnant when you came home?”
I nodded. “But I didn’t know until a few days after I came back here,” I said, “It’s been manic over here, with the guys sorting out the new album and me and Isis haven’t been getting on, and now this.” I gestured to where we were.
“Haven’t you heard of contraception?” She asked. My jaw dropped.
“I’m sorry Mrs Fields,” said CC, “But your daughter is a grown woman, and yes we were careful, but these things happen, and both of us are excited to be parents. We may not have known that Gemma was pregnant till she was 10 weeks, but I love your daughter and this has made me realise that even I underestimated how much.”
“You’re coming home as soon as possible!” she said, “And I don’t care, you’re not old enough to have a child!”
“You were barely 26 when you fell pregnant with my sister!” I said, raising my voice slightly, “I’m 25, theres less than a years difference in the ages! And CC is 29, 30 in a few weeks, so don’t tell us we’re too young!”
“Ann,” I heard my dad say in the background,”Please she’s her own person. Gemma, all I can say is, if you’re happy then I am too.” I smiled to my dad who was now in shot.
“Christian,” he added, “If you really love my daughter like you say you do, look after her, and maybe bring her over whenever you tour over here, we miss her.” I smiled wider and looked at CC, who was smiling too.
“I will sir,” he said, “No doubt about that, I’ll look after them both.”
“Don’t come running to me when this all goes horribly wrong!” said my mum cutting the call.
I leaned back against CC.
“She’ll come around.” He said, “Can you handle my parents too?” I nodded against his chest, He got his phone out this time and called them and put them on speaker. They answered whinin the second ring.
“Christian!” his mum said sternly, “What’s this I hear about a grandchild?” He laughed.
“Yeah,” he said, “Gemma’s pregnant, about 14 weeks pregnant, we've known for just under a month, I’m sorry we didn't tell you sooner, it came as a shock.”
“You’ve only known for a short time?” she asked, “is Gemma there with you?”
“Yes I am Mrs Mora,” I said
“Oh Mrs Mora was my mother in law,” she laughed, “call me Alice, and how could you not know?”
“Well nothing was different, “I said, “And I was under a lot of stress, when ended up in me collapsing, which is when we found out, we nearly lost the baby.” I felt tears in my eyes again.
“Oh darling,” she said, “I hope all of you are ok after that, it must have been hard.”
“Unbelievably,” said CC, “But yeah we’re all ok, well except Isis, she’s lost her memory of the past year, but it’s temporary, we hope.”
“Wow an eventful few weeks with you two then,” she said, “Well in that case I’ll forgive you for no telling us sooner, Chris your fathers listening too, but as usual has nothing to say.”
“That’s cuz I can’t get a word in so I give up!” We heard CC’s dad call from the other end of the line. I couldn’t help but laugh at that. I heard him grumble something that sounded suspiciously like ‘women are chatterboxes’. “I’ll let you two get back to your friend,” CC’s mum added, “And Chris, you look after Gemma and your bundle of joy, love you all, and we’ll see you soon, after all we still need to meet you Gemma.”
“We’ll organize something soon Mom,” said CC, as we said our goodbyes and ended the call.
“Ok,” I said, “I want your parents, I wasn’t expecting mums reaction, well not as bad as that, she said she didn't want to be a nan until she was in her 60’s, but I’m 6 years early.”
“She’ll come around.” he said as he kissed the top of my head, we looked towards Isis room and saw Isis parents make their way in, “Now lets go back to Isis and save her from her parents.” We walked back to the room.
"So Isis, what do you want to do?" Her mom asked her.
"What do you mean?" She said. "I just wanna get well and go home... Wherever that is..." She looked at Ashley, "did I live with you?"
“Of course,” he said,”I need to keep an eye on you and save you from your former pack of fan girls.” Isis smiled.
"I want to stay in LA." Isis said to her parents. They looked at each other again and sighed.
"I guess you can stay." Her dad spoke. "If we find out about another screw up, you're coming back to Phoenix." I hope they never find out about the threesome then, I thought to myself, I looked at Ashley he looked like he had the same thought as me, I gave him a comforting smile.
"What happened to your arms?" Isis mom pointed out her scars. Isis shrugged and looked at me.
“Apparently it was a mutant bee,” I said, “She was in the bathroom and it attacked her, she ended up breaking the mirror.” Ashley and CC tried to not laugh as I retold the lie she’d told me a few weeks previously.
"That must've been one huge bee." Her mom laughed.
“It wasn’t,” said Ashley, “It was normal size, she just freaked out, I heard a crash and found her in the shower cubicle yelling at the bee.”
"I doubt I was that dramatic!" Isis laughed.
“You were, it was really funny,” Ashley said laughing, “But then I saw your arms, I took you to the hospital, and they treated you for blood loss, you really done a number on yourself.” Her parents seemed shocked by this, but were silenced before they’d spoken by the doctor coming in.
“Ok Isis,” he said, “We’ve looked over this mornings test results, and there is nothing physically wrong with you, so we don’t want to keep you in if you want to go home, and I think it’d be best for you there too, as that’ll help bring your lost memories back. We want you to check in with your local hospital once you get home and then go from there with out patient appointments. Is there anything you’d like to ask while you’re still here?” She shook her head. ”Ok good,” he said, “I’ll leave you to get ready, a nurse will bring your discharge papers in in a moment.” With that he left, and I threw her a set of clothes from the bag we’d brought in with us, the tshirt landing on her head and covering her face.
“That’s much better,” I said laughing, she took the shirt off and glared at me then ushered us all out so she could get dressed. She signed her discharge papers and we all headed back to the hotel to get our things and check out and then made our way to the airport, said our goodbyes to Isis’ parents and the headed back to LA on the next available flight.
Notes
Alrighty then! Heres the next chapter! The reaction of Gemma's parents to her being pregnant was based on a true reaction? (I'm not too sure. But I think that what she told me. lol) And my parents are really protective when it comes to their little girl (*gags*).
But anyways! More fun things are on its way!
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yes it was my parents reaction lol, i was scared of their reaction so my ex's mum told them for me lol, yeah i chickened out lol
On a side note: YES!! I saw Black Veil Brides during the Halloweekend tour for both of the Tempe, AZ, and LA dates! It was the best time ever! Ashley and CC remembered me from twitter! haha Although that was embarrasing, I never felt so special! FUCKING ASHLEY PURDY REMEMBERED ME! Lol Gemma hates me for that, but yolo. CASHLEY SANDWICH! At the show in Tempe, I was FRONT AND CENTER the whole time and Ashley tried throwing his guitar pick at me 3 times! (and i know this because we made eye contact every time he tried)
Lol the first time it landed in front of some douchebag securityguard who threw it in the crowd. The second, it flew right across my face and landed into someone elses face. I had to ask him again and he gave me a "what just happened to the last pick i threw at you?" look, and after responding to him, he threw it again and this time it landed near a nice security guy who handed it to me! So yes! I have one now! lol
Anyways.. Then I followed then to LA and CC's reaction made my 5-6 hour drive worth it when it glanced up at me saying "You again?!" hahahaha Then he went on saying that he tried to throw a drum stick at me and asked if i got it. I told him no, and he promised to try again that night. (which did not happen but oh well. lol) Anyways.. My friend bought a pledge Music and was able to interview them and asked me to film everything! So after all oif that happened, they let us into the venue first! So I was able to get front and center AGAIN! So if youre going to buy the DVD in the future, keep an eye out for me with my black and white hair! The cameras were always in my face! haha After the show I saw CC walk infront of his drumset and posed facing away from the crowd! haha So I took advantage of that and posed as well! If you look on his instagram, you could also see me there! Also, I was able to meet Joe Flanders, who was such a sweetheart!
If you follow me on instagram, you can see ALLLL of these photos that I was just talking about!
http://instagram.com/isischaos819
http://instagram.com/p/u5HTp8GVYm/?modal=true <--Me in CC's photo!
Also heres the interview I got to help film! Go watch!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_AoZi__GA&feature=youtu.be
Anyways! I love you all!
<3,
IsisChaos
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Haha! That's for sure!
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